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Amed - Getting there5 Aug 2007
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The Flying Water Waterfall
"Classic" Bali
Cynthia at Tirta Gangga water temple
A bridge at Tirta Gangga
| We left Lovina in the morning. Lovina is a nice place to eat and shop but not much more (we'll get that in Ubud). We stopped at a waterfall that was posted on a road sign- it was a pretty decent waterfall but a farther walk than the 20 minutes it was supposed to be. More interesting than the waterfall was a boy we met coming back down the trail. He approached us with decent English and started making conversation. He told us that he has lived his whole life on a hillside farm nearby. His job is to scare the animals away so they don't eat the fruit and vegetables. The English he has learned has only come by meeting visitors along the trail. He pointed out numerous plants and trees on the farm and told us all about the different fruits and vegetables that he cares for. And the real important part of his job (the reason he cannot leave the mountain for even one day) is that he has to scare away the monkeys. When the fruit comes into season he spends his days and nights running around to scare away the monkeys and sometimes pythons and anaconda. He told us that recently some villagers killed a 12-foot anaconda and cooked it up...but he didn't care for the taste. Our next stop came at the Water Palace in Tirtagangga. I'm not really sure of the origins of the place but it was an interesting stop and definitely something different. We finally made it to Amed, a touristy coastal town, just after sunset and found a nice place to stay for the night. |
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